Who Wants To Help Cover the Olympics For Newsvine?

News Type: Other — Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:25 PM EDT

The Olympics are six weeks away.

I'm writing this article to start organizing who wants to cover what. I'm hoping some of my usual tv recappers will do as I do, namely cover some of these events via watching them on tv and writing about it.

I will remind you that my advice on how to recap tv programs is here and Vacelts' is here I also continue to recruit people to cover summer tv shows over here

I thought about starting a new group just to cover the Olympics so it can all be in one central place but I think we all agree there's plenty of groups already.

So instead I suggest all stories about the Olympics be published to Sports Fans, TV-Guide and (if you focus on it from the television entertainment angle) to the Entertainment Gateway.

I'm particularly intereste in getting coverage commitments from non-Americans. There's two advantages to that: 1)Many Newsviners are Americans only exposed to American news media and thus the coverage will be focused on the Americans. But Newsvine is supposed to be international so I think it'd be great – in fact I see it as essentially incumbent on us – to look at the Olympics from 2) I think it'd be fascinating to compare media coverage of the Olympics between US media and other media. This would work particularly well for someone with a dish who can pick up media from other nations.

Important: Include a spoiler warning in all articles that reveal winners if you're writing it before that event has been televised.

If anyone reading this is going to the Olympics – as a fan or athlete – post below or email me because it'd be great to have some first-hand reporting.

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

Any questions?

As we get closer to the event's starts I'll throw out suggested story ideas. For now I just wanted to gauge interest.

And, yes, it's ok for some events to be covered by more than one person. I'm guessing we'll have multiple people wanting to cover events like soccer

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#1 - Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:25 PM EDT

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Ben Josephs

This is off-topic... but is that you, in a tub, with a rubber ducky?

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#2 - Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:06 PM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

This is off-topic... but is that you, in a tub, with a rubber ducky?

Yup. Details here

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#2.1 - Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:29 PM EDT

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Dr Know

I want to BOYCOTT THE OLYMPICS. It has never been about amateur athletics. It started as a demonstration of the military might of different countries (that is why the shooting and riding sports are there). The recent behavior of the Chinese government is atrocious. They even used the torch relay through Tibet to arrest the vast majority of the monks (one monastery used to have 550 monks, now there are 10!).

In addiiton, we will have "balanced" reporting forced on us. The American women won Softball. NOT ONE game was televised. Instead we were forced to in depth pieces on the Kenyan marathon runners. The time difference will make the games be time delayed (When it is 9 AM PDT it is 1 am in Bejing). This means the games starting at noon in China it will be 11 PM in New York. Any afternoon or evening events will be after everyone is in bed! BUT the reporters will act as if their tape delay is LIVE. They think we are stupid.

Do NOT cover the Olympics BURY them!

BTW, if you did not know, this is the last year Softball will be an Olympic sport. The powers that be do not like the United States to dominate any sport.

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#3 - Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:07 PM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

Not only am I not going to boycott the olympics but I'm not only going to write about them but am publishing an interview tomorrow with the author of what I expect will be a bestseller about the 1960 Olympics. Details here.

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#3.1 - Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:21 PM EDT

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Dr Know

Your mistake for encouraging the human rights debacle in China. Which 1960 Olympics? Summer or Winter? Summer was in Rome. Winter was in Squaw Valley. The 1960 Olympics was the last one that South Africa was allowed to participate because of the human rights issue of Apartheid. Interesting how the knife only cuts in one direction on human rights.

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#3.2 - Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:48 PM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

Your mistake for encouraging the human rights debacle in China.

Oh, yes, I'm responsible for hurting human rights, that's why I've seeded at least 25 stories about human rights abuses and do so at every opportunity.

Much better to bury my head in the sand and act like the Olympics don't exist than to write about it and talk about what's really going on.

Next time a "no, thanks," would be sufficent to the question of whether you want to help.

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1 vote

#3.3 - Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:24 PM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

Which 1960 Olympics? Summer or Winter? Summer was in Rome. Winter was in Squaw Valley.

The Rome Olympics

The 1960 Olympics was the last one that South Africa was allowed to participate because of the human rights issue of Apartheid

Yes I made a point of asking about that.

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#3.4 - Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:26 PM EDT

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Dr Know

You can justify encouraging China because you have done "so much" elsewhere?

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1 vote

#3.5 - Sat Jun 28, 2008 12:01 AM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

How am I "encouraging" China by writing about what happens there, be it human rights abuses or olympics events or both?

How are you discouraging China by not writing about it?

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#3.6 - Sat Jun 28, 2008 1:19 AM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

Dr. Know, let's continue this conversation over here. Your questions helped prompt this article I just published.

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#3.7 - Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:13 AM EDT

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Mulderscully

I'm sure I'll watch and contribute.

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#4 - Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:07 PM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

Excellent. Any particular events you want to cover?

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#4.1 - Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:25 PM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

Meanwhile, we're talking here about whether we should boycott the Olympics and over here there's a Chinese woman defending the Chinese government.

I'm on top of the olympics. I'm even trying to organize some of us to cover the tv coverage and I did an interview with the author of what I expect will be a bestseller about the 1960 Olympics.

Oh and here's an interesting piece on how NBC is tracking all of this (and us - cue ominous music) Off to go put on some pants since I may be on camera right now

Currently my Olympic hero is this /sbutki.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/30/1625483-at-41-a-former-olympic-swimmer-is-too-old-to-return-right-well-guess-what?groupId=1408">woman and not just because we're almost the same age.

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#5 - Mon Jul 7, 2008 11:07 AM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

Just realized an immediate problem: I'm scheduled to go to a church event this weekend but that'll mean missing the opening ceremonies? can we get someone to cover that?

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#7 - Mon Aug 4, 2008 1:46 PM EDT

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